Former leftist militant group
Prima Linea member Francesco D'Onofrio on Friday denied
involvement in the 1983 murder of Turin prosecutor Bruno Caccia.
Speaking via a lawyer, the 62-year-old D'Onofrio said he was
"absolutely astonished" by a claim made against him by a
Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia informant.
"I had nothing whatsoever to do with Bruno Caccia's murder,"
he said.
It emerged Thursday that D'Onofrio had been named by
informant Domenico Agresta in a Milan trial into Caccia's
murder.
D'Onofrio has been recently linked to 'Ndrangheta. Agresta is
cited in court documents as saying "my father told me in
Calabrian dialect: it was them who did the Turin prosecutor.
"He didn't say kill but 'do', which is the term we habitually
use".
Agresta was recounting the alleged gist of a conversation
with D'Onofrio and another 'Ndrangheta man, Rocco Schirippa, in
a Turin jail in 2012.
"The thing didn't surprise me because I knew they were people
who shot people," said Agresta.
Schirippa is on trial for killing Caccia.
photo: At left, Caccia
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